Nicolás Cardona

I'm happily married and a father of one precocious little boy.

I was born in New York City and spent most of my life here.

I plan on utilizing this forum to force myself to edit and rethink older work, bringing to the editorial process new found insights I've acquired within these last 5 years , in hopes of reshaping and consolidating my juvenilia. I've been caught up in a bit of a quandary, you see, as my older work has prevented me from moving on to the next stage of my writing life. I've managed to gather up a hundred or so pieces which, in my mind, lay incomplete, as I was a much more prodigious writer in my 20's. I simply moved from one poem into the next, carelessly. It is my sincere hope that I will be forced to take a much more careful look at these pieces, so as to lay them to rest once and for all, with the goal of overcoming the creative blockage I've been undergoing for a dozen or so seasons by now. I've prepared myself for this unfolding in reading and thinking and analyzing variegated styles and eras in literature. - I've since discarded my modest backlog of Poetry magazine and have sought my inspiration from writers and poets writing from outside my cultural milieu, namely contemporary American Poetry. My tastes in literature spans the full gamut of the art form, and so, I am one of those writers who still believes that the poetry and fiction prior to the 1960's still holds meaning and value to contemporary letters. - With the added twist of learning to look at all of this with a deconstructive eye.

Artifice or else a post-experience of the Encounter.
Etymological meanderings. Show me a way out of the Labyrinth of our Language games.

I've decided to use my blog page to post various articles and writing relevant to literature. Please feel free to peruse it at you leisure.

My literary influences include: James Joyce; Ezra Pound;Tomas Tranströmer; Jean-Marie Gleize; and Christophe Tarkos.

Some of my favorite books are: The Painted Bird; Being There; Crime and Punishment; A Barbarian in Asia;Tears and Saints; Alleluia: The Catechism of Dianus; Nausea and Death in Venice

I'm interested in connecting with creative individuals and partaking in a free exchange of ideas and criticism.



"It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you." - Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin